#fbi special agent scully

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

April 27, 2002.

The X-Files "Series Finale Wrap Party"

Gillian Anderson during "The X-Files" Series Finale Wrap Party at The House Of Blues in West Hollywood, California, United States. (Photo by Albert L. Ortega/WireImage)

[nerds-yearbook]

On December 24, 1998, Special Agent Fox Mulder relunctantly convinced his partner Dana Scully to go with him into a haunted house on Christmas Eve by stealing her car keys. The ghosts (played by Ed Asner and Lily Tomlin) were of a couple who died in a murder suicide pact in 1917. The episode had only four characters making it the smallest cast in the series until the revival. (how the ghosts stole christmas)

[stone-cold-groove]

I want to believe this is a real comic book series.

[pinktinselmonstrosity]

i love how skinner treats mulder and scully. he must be in charge of thousands of fbi agents but whenever anything happens to him he only calls mulder and scully. assistant director of the fbi gets shot? gets framed for murder? better call those two weirdos who work in the basement and get them on the case! they're his special little pet fbi agents. like the cat your dad said he didn't want but ends up being grudgingly inseparable from

[figureofdismay]

you know those cute Mr and Msr Spooky actually go to a teamwork seminar thing and it's either 'wow they're so good at silent communication' or 'they learn to use I statements and therapy speak to work some things out over some angst, and maybe kiss' etc etc fics? Well, I want an MSR forced to actually go to a teamwork and workplace effectiveness conference but it's mostly about Scully talking to other agents and being forced to confront that most of their relationship has 0 to do with being work colleague partners and other FBI agent teams aren't like her and Mulder, by a much larger margin than accounted for by being the Special Paranormal Things division.

She keeps trying to relate to other agents with highly toned down declassified 'just little partnership things~' from her experiences with Mulder as encouraged by the program, and keeps getting '😳 you what? he's overprotective because you've been kidnapped how many times?' and '.....no, Pete and I haven't had that "partner's insomnia keeping you up nights on the phone" issue come up, actually,' and 'well for one thing we're both married to other people so no I don't need to worry about my partner flirting with the local authorities...' and 'neither of us are each other's doctor, no, I haven't had to fight any hospital doctors over his treatment. Actually neither of us have been in the hospital so far this assignment. How are you guys getting injured so often, anyway?' and similar reactions, leading her to question if she and Mulder are kind of weird, actually 💀😂

like i think that could be a really funny! and a bit poignant tbh, showing how isolated she's become from her colleagues. But mostly funny and ironic because i personally think Mulder knows that how they act is definitely pretty different and extreme but Scully thinks they're mostly just regular work partners doing normal work things together 😅

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Title/Name: Dana Scully and Fox Mulder with Alien Known As: The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series and film franchise created by Chris Carter. Two special FBI agents, probe into cases that have been left unresolved. While Mulder believes in the paranormal, Scully settles for a more scientific approach. Country: USA Wojak Series: Soyjak (Variant) Image by: Unknown Main Tag: The X-Files Wojak

[deathsbestgirl]

detour

okay this episode is SO SPECIAL. first case after reduxes & scully's remission. scully was dying and begging mulder to pin the murder on her & save himself. he would never do that. he never wants to get her in trouble, tarnish her name & record, hurt her family.

mulder saved scully!! she's not dying!! and skinner sends them to a team building seminar...neither of them are happy about this lol

mulder is absolutely unbearable on the car ride. he cannot stand these other agents, he wants no part of this exercise. he isn't even remotely subtle and the only good part about this is that he gets to make scully smile & laugh. and those are real smiles, she loves that he hates this. she hates it too, but as long as she gets to do it with him, it's fine!!

so simple. so funny. delivery & facial expressions were PERFECT.

like. i just need to emphasize how much mulder does not like people, he hates having to play nice. he doesn't even try !!! scully at least tries, but she doesn't have a reason to hate these two so. do with that what you will lol

so when mulder gets out of the car, he's just trying to escape that car for a few minutes. but a woman goes running up to him, asking him questions he can't answer. he wasn't actually looking for anything but he found it. he can't deny a woman asking for help...for answers. so he goes to look for them and finds michelle. i love this lesbian redhead sooooo much. mulder likes how focused on the work she is, how knowledgeable she is. nerds. but she doesn't want help from the fbi, it's her case.

(she loves him)

THE PAIN. like scully really thought this was just an excuse and she said let's make it worth it. but it was really an x file and people needed his help and he isn't ready for this.

after all the progress they made, how physical they were after her initial diagnosis and again when she was in the hospital. they chose silence before, but what did silence matter when they started showing each other so much physical affection? and now scully isn't dying, she's alive & she wants to do something about it. she thinks they're on the same page... but mulder still chooses silence, he flees. and he only takes her along after.

i don't blame him at all. he isn't ready. but this is painful for her. genuinely the closest she would ever get to making the first move, and she really just gives an opening. wine & cheese plate, the quip about partners consorting. we all know they don't have a problem hanging out or working in each other's rooms. it happened in the pilot & deep throat, literally right from the beginning lol evidence:

but. when mulder leaves, scully steels herself. you can visibly see her process & accept it.

(after this, the closest she gets to addressing their relationship is asking him about getting out of the damn car)

[conzoop]

When you're working as a 911 operator and you pick up and hear "This is Special Agent Dana Scully of the FBI" you know you're about to hear some insane shit

[carefulfears]

literally thinking about how mulder is the softest man. and he loves beautifully. he's so focused on his quest because of how much he loves samantha, and his parents. he tries to hope, desperately, that samantha is alive & he'll find her even though he knows how unlikely it is. and without scully, it would have taken him much longer to face it. no one ever looked into the darkness with him or loved samantha with him or believed in him so much they always followed him & stayed present with him in those really difficult moments he couldn't get away from the grief. and everything scully does for him, he returns. he responds to how she cares, and her boundaries. and they talk but they don't really talk, so he toes the line. he's always checking in with her.

the x-files is about love because everything mulder does is through love does everybody get it!! god, it’s just so major to me, that he’s this iconic sci-fi hero who’s just 100% grounded in kindness and generosity. there’s nothing hiding around the corner. he’s not the bad boy in the basement, he’s not the maverick with a secret heart of gold, he’s just fucking nice. he cares about people. he sees people. he wants to help. he loves his sister. loves his shitty parents. loves his evil ex-partners and ex-wife. loves his friend. there’s always something deeper in mulder, but it’s always just pain. he’s not hiding anything away. he refuses to let go of anything, but never wants anyone to fall into the same trap, his or their own. he tells traumatized women who’ve been abused and imprisoned that he needs their help, that they’re capable of contributing, that he wants to know what they think. while every other cop tries to lock them up. he feels every loss, carries every ghost, never stops trying.

i just watched irresistible again, and god. the way that he pulls scully aside and tells her, it’s okay to be affected. it’s normal. “i’ve seen agents with 20 years fall apart on cases like this.” he doesn’t say that it’s because she’s a woman (like the cop in 2shy does) or because she’s young or because she’s traumatized. he never brings up her recent abduction. he just tells her that it’s okay to need space, that she can talk to him.

and scully is trying so fucking hard to be that perfect navy captain’s daughter. that girl who straightened before looking up at her father to say goodnight. that girl who, as her mother says, has “always been the strong one.”

and she tries to be the strong one. she takes a step back. she goes to therapy. she tells her therapist that she trusts her partner more than anyone, but she does not want him to know that she’s struggling. when she decides to come back, and calls him, she plays it off with a joke. (like he does). “besides, you could use my help.” when he responds, “always.” it’s so earnest and direct, without breaking her cover or stepping out of the box she created. yes, of course, agent scully. come help.

in the end, she can barely choke out that “i’m fine,” her signature move. he doesn’t say a word. he tips her chin so slightly, so that she looks at him. it’s one of the most special moments of the series, to me, the way she just breaks when she sees him. grabs him and sobs. and how you can just barely hear him whisper: “it’s alright.”

the police are still cleaning up the scene around them. i don’t think we ever see her do that again, in front of other people. but we do see her do it with him, when they’re alone, because she knows she can. that strong captain’s daughter. it’s like someone talked about on one of your posts before: scully has to be put together. she has to be the strong one. she’s trying to maintain a fragile place in “the boy’s club” (she talks about this herself). she’s trying to present respectability and a certain image.

and maybe she does have to be that person, for her parents, for her brother, for the FBI, the doctors. but mulder thinks that it’s okay to be affected. he just wants her to be able to talk about it. he wants to see her vulnerability, and shield it. in that house in minneapolis, his face breaks, but he just holds her and whispers. and she rarely falls into it, but she knows that she can, since the motel room in bellefleur. and that means something.

it’s just impossible not to soften around him. and that’s something really special, for scully, for the victims and witnesses he works with. he values their help, he already views them as strong, he wants them to express everything that they’re feeling. he believes it helps.

(mulder has said that line too, “you’re the strong one.” - to lucy householder when she was crying in the dirt)

this show was always realistic. you do have to present a certain image. most people are gonna think you’re young and weak and traumatized and stupid. but it also centered this whole thing around this one person that didn’t require any of that, and that’s why it works. why it’s so special.

[shelbgrey]

Heyy!

my ask is

can i get something like the reader is gabriel's girlfriend but She is also sam and dean's little sister?

first time i ask someone🥲

greetings from hungary!🇭🇺

Thanks for the request buddie, hope it's okay this is in Headcanon form and greetings from the US🇺🇸

The Winchester and the Trickster: Gabe Headcanons

Paring: Gabriel x Winchester!Reader

Summary: headcanons on what it's like to be the youngest winchester and dating Gabe

MasterList

Your guys story starts before you even knew it did.

Gabe is your guardian angel and knew who you were for a long time. His job as your Garudian Angel is the only thing he took seriously.

If you and choose to be together you might keep it a secret at first.

Not only are you a hunter your the youngest winchester, which means the brothers are extremely over protective of you.

It took a while for you to except gabes love but you don't regret it what so ever.

He may seem like a villan to everyone else but he treats you like a queen.

After a while you and him do get cought by Sam. Gabe decided to stay over at the bunker one night after the boys went on a hunt. You both were in the middle of a heated make out sessions when Sam walked in.

Dean didn't like it one bit. He didn't trust Gabe and he sure as hell didn't want gabe around you.

Sam on the other had was questionable about it but tried to see it your way.

After a while the boys got over it and even started getting along with him.

I think him and Dean would intentionally get on each other's nerves and constantly teas each other.

Sam and him get along okay but Sam gets tired of the sarcasm.

Gabe will help out on hunts as much as possible but he's mainly there to protect you. You'll come out of a hunt without a scratch with him, that's a promise.

He never fails to make you laugh and always has you smiling.

His kisses are rough and passionate. They're usually unexpected and he isn't afraid to kiss you in front of your brothers.

You love his wings. With the gaurdian angel connection your the only one who can see his golden wings.

Be prepared for candy wrappers and angel feathers every where. Mainly in your shared room in the bunker.

He'll watch whatever show you love at the time and will always try to enjoy the music you love.

You'll qoute movies and make movie reference together all the time.

He'll go under cover with you for a hunt all the time. His favorite FBI names to use is Agent Scully and Mulder.

He's the best cuddler. You never slept well with a the anxiety that comes with being a hunter but if he's there with his arms around you, you have enough peace and comfter to sleep well.

You'll help him prank your brothers all the time. No matter the consequence it's worth the laugh.

Castiel is your best friend so be prepared for some jealousy. That's gabes down fall.

He trusts and loves you but he's afraid you'll find someone better and leave him. There's always been a part of him that thinks he's too bad for you.

That's not true. You love every part of him but he had to stop hurting your brothers before you could continue to date him.

Speaking of which. During all his torture and pranks he's pulled you were never harmed. He knew how close you a Dean were so he made sure you didn't see or remember him dying at the mystery spot.

He'd ask you to marry him but since the world always seemes to be ending you'd nevr have a big fancy wedding but your brothers and Castile help make a tine wedding special.

When Jack comes around the both of you take him and become his aunt and uncle or parent figures.

I think after everything calms down in the world you'd end up adopting Jack.

Even though it started off Rocky but everything is okay now. As long as he's around no harm will come.

That's all for now buds

[thatfragilecapricorn30]

I like The X-Files, should I watch Fringe?

I decided to watch Fringe because it was frequently recommended as a show for fans of TXF. I was really curious how similar it would be and would I actually enjoy it? I'm only on S2 E5, so this post will be my impressions of the first season. I'll probably write another post after watching more of the show. I'll also try to make this as spoiler free as possible so anyone can read it!

What is Fringe about? The main character is FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham. We meet her when she's assigned to a case in which everyone on board a plane dies from a mysterious illness. The plane lands successfully at Boston Logan (due to some auto-landing feature - not sure if this is even real) and this is where we find out that Boston (aka Vancouver) is our setting for the show. Dunham traces the mysterious illness back to the research of a former Harvard professor (Dr. Walter Bishop), who is currently in a psychiatric institution, and she needs his son (Peter Bishop) to get him out. By the end of the episode, the three of them form the core of the Fringe division, a cohort of agents and consultants working on unexplained cases (sound familiar??).

How are Fringe and TXF similar?

Both shows center on a special division within the FBI that involve unexplained phenonomen.

Both are filmed in Vancouver.

Both feature monster of the week and mythology episodes.

Both have a strong female lead.

Both have the potential for romance between the two leads (Olivia and Peter).

How are the two shows different?

Fringe features an ensemble cast, whereas TXF was really only Mulder and Scully. I enjoy the relationships between the characters (like Peter and his father, and Walter and Astrid), but the show hasn't done a great job of fleshing out characters aside from the core three. Poor Astrid has pretty much no personality aside from performing lab work with Walter.

The show does not have the same atmosphere as TXF seasons 1-5, even though they're both filmed in the same locale. It might be because of film vs. digital, but the cinematography on Fringe is lacking compared to the beautiful forests we're used to seeing on TXF.

Fringe does a great job of tying a majority of their monster of the week episodes back to the main mythology. The problem with this is that it's hard to watch these episodes independently as they don't have a truly self-contained story.

The mythology storyline is well-developed and I heard that there's actually a plan for the plot (unlike TXF).

Fringe is sci-fi. There are no paranormal, supernatural, or horror elements.

Other impressions:

It took me about halfway through season 1 to start getting into the show, and it seems like that might be some others' experience (and why they may have stopped).

I find it hard to follow the cases sometimes, because they involve technology that is extremely advanced or currently doesn't exist at all, and it seems like the writers don't really understand it either.

I have a feeling we'll be seeing a romantic relationship between Olivia and Peter at some point and I think the show is doing a good job of slowly developing their bond. I've also heard that Anna Torv and Joshua Jackson did not get along on set (sound familiar??) but they have decent chemistry - not as good as David and Gillian but as we all know, there's not a fair comparison.

There's random things that rub me the wrong way, like Walter performing autopsies (someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think he's an MD, just has several PhDs), how every single case relates back to Walter's research (this man is like 10 Einsteins because he was conducting experiments in every field and all of it beyond the realm of known science), Walter touching dead bodies at crime scenes without gloves (I know this happens in TXF but it's so egregious in Fringe). Despite all this, I do like Walter's character and I think John Noble gives an excellent performance.

Olivia Dunham is a well-rounded character and Anna Torv is great. I really enjoy the relationship she has with her sister and niece.

So far, I enjoy the mythology episodes more than the monster of the week, which is the opposite of my opinion for TXF.

It's funny that there are 15 years between the premiere of TXF (1993) and Fringe (2008) and about another 15 years to present day (2024). But Fringe seems so modern compared to TXF. You can barely tell it's 15 years old, except for the lack of iPhones and I'm sure even that will change in the next few seasons.

Should I watch it??

If you really enjoy sci-fi, I would say definitely check it out. If you're on the fence, or don't like sci-fi at all, I would skip this one.

It probably sounds like I don't enjoy Fringe based on my above points. I think part of it is that I am comparing it to TXF, even while watching, and TXF is definitely better (imo). I also enjoy horror more than sci fi. But, Fringe is holding my interest for now and I've heard that it improves throughout the seasons, so I'm going to keep watching.

I'll definitely write an update post at some point - if I finish the show or stop watching it.

I'm so curious to hear the thoughts of others who have watched Fringe! Do you agree with my assessments so far? What are your opinions and how does it compare to The X-Files for you?

[thedepartmentofdiscoveries]

[scifigeneration]

An X-Files expert on the show’s enduring appeal – 30 years on

by Bethan Jones, Research Associate at the University of York

On September 10 1993 the pilot episode of The X-Files aired. Thirty years later to the day, I was at a convention centre in Minneapolis with 500 other fans and the show’s creator, Chris Carter, celebrating its legacy.

Ostensibly a show about aliens, The X-Files swiftly became part of the cultural lexicon and remains there to this day. In part its success was down to the chemistry of its two leads – David Duchovny, who played FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson, who played FBI Special Agent Dana Scully. After all, it was the X-Files fandom that invented the term “shipping” (rooting for characters to get together romantically).

But, as I argue in my new book, The Truth Is Still Out There: Thirty Years of The X-Files, what really made the series successful was its ability to tap into contemporary cultural moments and ask us to really think about the times we’re living in.

When the series began in 1993, the US was still grappling with the effects of Watergate and the Vietnam war, but concerns were also rising about the approaching millennium and the economic and cultural divisions within US society. It also coincided with Bill Clinton becoming president – marking the end of more than a decade of Republican leadership.

It’s little surprise that fears about immigration, globalisation, national identity and technology emerged and were adopted – and sometimes foreshadowed – by The X-Files’ writers. Several episodes throughout the first nine seasons dealt with artificial technology, for example, and Eve, an episode in season one about clones, came four years before the birth of Dolly the Sheep.

Critical theorist Douglas Kellner argued in 1994 that The X-Files “generated distrust toward established authority, representing institutions of government and the established order as highly flawed, even complicit in the worst crimes and evil imaginable”. Though I’d argue it was less that the show generated this distrust and more that it leveraged the growing number of reports about the government’s secretive activities to inspire its storylines.

As the public became more aware of the government’s role in – and surveillance of – public life, so too The X-Files considered the ways in which technology could be used as a means of control.

In the season three episode Wetwired, for example, a device attached to a telephone pole emits signals that tap into people’s paranoid delusions and lead them to kill. And in the season six episode, SR 819, a character’s circulatory system fails because he has been infected with nanotechnology controlled by a remote device belonging to a shadow government.

These themes reflected growing concerns about government agencies using technology to both spy on and influence the public.

The X-Files’ enduring appeal

During my X-Files research, carried out with viewers after a revival was announced in 2015, it became clear that the show has remained part of the cultural lexicon. As one fan explained: “The cultural context of conspiracy theories has changed since the beginning of X-Files. Nowadays, every pseudoscience documentary uses similar soundtrack and narrative.”

Of course, the X-Files didn’t invent conspiracy theories, but as one of the show’s writers and producers, Jim Wong, points out, it did “tap into something that was more or less hidden in the beginning when we were doing it”.

The focus on the rise of the alt-right, disinformation and fake news in seasons 10 and 11 seemed like a logical angle from which to approach the changing cultural context the revival came into. Carter and his co-writers dove straight in to what Guardian critic Mark Lawson calls “a new era of governmental paranoia and public scepticism”, fuelled by the 2008 financial crisis, the fall out of the war on terror and scores of political scandals.

Season 10 saw the introduction of a right-wing internet talk show host who argues that 9/11 was a “false flag operation” and that the mainstream liberal media lie to Americans about life, liberty and the right to bear arms. The parallels to conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones and Glenn Beck were obvious.

Carter’s incorporation of topics like surveillance, governments’ misuse of power and methods of social control meant that seasons ten and 11 were very much situated in the contemporary moment. This is perhaps most obvious in the season 11 episode, The Lost Art of Forehead Sweat, which deals with the disinformation of the Trump era head on. The episode’s protagonist, Dr. They, tells Mulder that “no one can tell the difference anymore between what’s real and what’s fake”.

While The X-Files’ search for the truth in the 1990s may have ultimately been a philosophical endeavour, in the 21st century it is a commentary on how emotion and belief can be more influential than objective facts.

Watching the show again while researching my book, I was struck by how it was dated predominantly by its lack of technology, rather than the ideas it expresses. In the second season episode Ascension, Mulder pulls a phone book off a shelf in his search for Scully – now we’d use Google. But in other aspects the show remains as relevant today as it was in the 1990s, encouraging us to think about the big questions relating to faith, authority and truth.

[whumpees]

The X-Files whump list

Synopsis: The X-Files focused on the professional lives of two FBI special agents, Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, who are charged with investigating unusual and unsolved cases, known as X-Files, that involved elements of the supernatural or paranormal. Some of these cases forwarded the series’ mythological story arc and involved the investigative duo’s moving closer toward uncovering a vast government conspiracy regarding the existence of extraterrestrials.

Whumpee: fox mulder played by david duchovny

Seasons: 11 (1993-2018) (218 eps)

Movies: 2

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S01

Ep2: kidnapped, held down on a stretcher, restrained in the stretcher and given a sedative injection by force & oxygen mask put on his face, delirious (half awake), in an operation room, scully got him out and he looked confused & shocked & wasn't walking well? He forgot how he got kidnapped

Ep5: mini attack & lifts his shirt for paramedics to bandage his torso

Ep10: mini attack & bruised cheek. Thrown against the ground & limping & using crutches

Ep12: suffocating from smoke, collapse on the floor and helped to walk by firemen

Ep13: shot in the leg and falls on the floor, laying in a stretcher unconscious with an oxygen mask & leg bleeding, recovering in the hospital (the whole things was very brief and boring)

Ep14: hit on the head and falls on the ground then hit again and knocked out briefly

Ep20: attacked by insects, hospitalized & has bruises on his face

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S02

Ep1: found passed out

Ep15: stabbed or something in the arm by magic or whatever and falls on the ground & scully finds him laying on the ground

Ep16: flash forward: brought to the hospital in a critical condition, hypothermia, bad eye bruising, but in a bathtub to warm him, his heart stops and the scene is cut

Ep17: thrown at the ground multiple times, a substance gets in his eyes and he's almost blinded,dragged out side of the submarine and falls from a high distance, unable to see properly & difficultly moving, the scene from last episode continues and he his in a bathtub. Defibrillation, in the hospital for days unconscious, woke up and speaking with difficulty

Ep18: attacked by a gorilla and falls on the ground, hit by light and then found unconscious with his head bleeding

Ep19: "aging fast", rescued & passed out in hospital

Ep25: sleep deprived, loses his temper and attacks someone and so is manhandled. Asleep, wakes up started by scully, says he came home cuz he might have been running a fever, coughs. Sweating and breathing heavily a lil bit crying at the death of someone and comes home to scully with a fever and she puts him to bed and puts a cold cloth on his head. He won't listen to scully so she shoots him, falls unconscious, wakes up in someone's house bandaged, turned out he was being drugged and it's what caused him to get out of control to get everyone to distrust him. Holding his arm to his torso to stay still and not aggravate his wound. In a burning place, status unknown

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S03

Ep1: found passed out under debris, carried to safty, passed out for 3 days with high fever

Ep4: fighting, thrown in the ground, hurt & winces in pain

Ep7: pushed across the room (srsly what's with the useless pain free pushes???)

Ep9: in a fight & pushed to the ground (i swear one more push and imma 😤 i just write them in case somebody cares about details 🙃)

Ep10: strangled, blood marks from the robe on his neck, knocked out & kicked multiple times, found unconscious with bloody face, carried while unconscious

Ep14: hit in the face, face treated by paramedic

Ep16: in a car accident, passed out, wakes up briefly and passes out again, wakes up in the hospital

Ep24: in a fight and thrown to the ground & a little hurt

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S04

Ep1: smashed against a car & falls on the ground, meets scully and she says "you're freezing, you're in shock."

Ep3: tranquillised, collapses, found paralysed with his eyes open, unresponsive, dragged by scully

Ep8: whipped, passed out on the ground in a prison cell then wakes up, held down by many men & injected something to take him to do "experiments" on him, woke up tied in bed, worms entering his nose and get through his eyes and whole face 🤮

Ep9: passed out in the cell in a fetal position, thrown away by an explosion, helped to walk by scully

Ep15: punched & stepped on

Ep23: woke up on the floor covered in blood (not his) & doesn't remember what happened, scully finds him in a bathtub trying to warm himself and says "you're in shock", gets a sudden severe headache, on the floor & comes to consciousness, headache again, slapped hard af lol, goes to a doctor to perform a certain procedure on him to trigger his memories, doc injects him with something, in a bed struggling like he's having seizures ( he's remembering things) & doc restrains him

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S05

Ep2: puts his head next to scully while she's sleeping and cries silently (i don't list emotional whump but this one he looked so helpless i liked that 😂)

Ep3: a substance is sprayed all over him & is painful so he takes off his shirt & writhes in pain on the gound & seems delirious or smth

Ep4: attacked by smth and hurt his arm and has a scratch on his chest, is cold and scully says you might still be in shock, scully cuddles him and he sleeps like a baby on her lap, the scratch on his chest is bandaged

Ep5: collapses from gass

Ep11: chained & electrocuted, virtual reality: woke up in an ambulance & confused asks what happened & finds his arms burned from the electrocution, opens his eyes again, sweating & being rushed to the operating room, turns out those "doctors" want to experiment on him & he notices that and is dead scared and asks for scully to be his doctor, injected smth in his neck, wakes up, says "i feel sick", finds his arm cut and panics, nurse suffocates him with pillow, wakes up again with both his arms cut:: back in reality: tied to the machine that forced him to watch that virtual world, scully calls out for him but the machine druggs him to not answer her, scully gets him off the machine & he's unresponsive, she helps him walk

Ep12: eats drugged pizza & is found passed put & is slapped to wake up (& the scene is repeated but from mulder's narrative and he has difficulty speaking then passes out), "attacked" & wakes up in a car

Ep14: attacked & falls on the ground & a gun point at him

Ep18: blindfolded, his hands are restrained to the table, being interrogated & every time he doesn't "confess" they pull back his finger and he's in so much pain & screams, they finally break his finger & he's dying 😂😂, finger in a cast

Ep19: hysterically attacking someone cuz he thinks he's a monster & so he's manhandled, thought to be having psychosis so he's admitted to the hospital restrained in bed, injected smth & winces in pain, nurse turns off light so he can sleep and then the monster comes to him and he screams for help and begs the nurse to untie him but she dismisses him and thinks he's crazy so he just screams all night 😂😂

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S06

Ep3: (this man has to get him self in trouble all the time 😂😂😂) passed out in the water face down, pulled out of the water by rope while passed out, wakes up fast & coughs up water, punched several times but the men who saved him, jumps into the water, wakes up in hospital & says "i feel like hell"

Ep13: attacked by an octopus (but not shown) & has its marks around his neck & he can't breathe well, stumbles

Ep14: shot, scully rips his shirt & puts her hand in the wound to stop the bleeding

Ep21: unconscious and being digested alive by mushrooms, rescued and pulled from underground and put in an ambulance

Ep22: an image keeps triggering him every time he sees it: feels disoriented, hissing ears every, blurry vision, collapses in pain, later put in a psychiatric facility and is shown through the camera to act hostile & screaming, doctors said they're given him alot of drugs enough to put him into a coma put his brain has an "abnormal brain function"

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S07

Ep1: abnormal brain activity that won't allow it to shut down or rest manifesting in episodes of aggression, attacks someone, manhandled against the wall, unresponsive & restrained in bed hands & legs, in a wheelchair while still unresponsive, given a high dose of a drug to lower his brain activity so he can walk to get him out of the hospital but results in a seizure & held down in bed

Ep2: still in bed like a zombie, injected smth in his head & is in pain , in handcuffs & still in hospital gown, on a table arms & legs tied & unconscious, being operated on, laying unconscious, wakes up & says to scully with difficulty: "help me"

Ep4: found in a basement sitting on the ground with hurt his arm (zombie attack) , arm bandaged

Ep6: shot in the arm (literally has no whump at all not even pain!!), being bandaged in hospital

Ep9: bitten by snakes & found unconscious on the ground by scully, in the hospital

E13: beaten by a character in a game

E16: attacked & drowned but doesn't pass out

Ep18: coughs blood, insect eggs are hatching in his lungs, unconscious in the operating room and the worms are being vacuumed from his lungs by a tube, unconscious in bed, wakes up & his voice is weak, gasps for air, "code blue", the docs are trying to stabilise him

Ep21: thrown to the ground by an explosion

Ep22: abducted by aliens

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S08

Ep1: aliens doing experiments on him (honestly brutal ew), screaming , in scully's "dream" but it's actually real & shown later: naked & restrained to the chair by bars pierced through his hands & legs, his chest being cut open & screaming

Ep2: ( not actually mulder but someone masking as him but it looked good tho 🙂: jumps from a cliff, passed out on the ground), again shown in someone's dream but it's real: naked & unconscious, and again at the end of the episode

Ep14: found in a forest passed out.

Ep15: presumed dead, dug out of the grave, at the hospital

Ep16: flashback of the horrific experiments

Ep20: attacked & falls unconscious on the ground, scully treats his face

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S09

(He was missing the whole season)

Ep19: appears in a prison cell, a soldier asks him "what are you thinking?" And mulder replies "where am i?", the man goes "wrong answer" and punches him in the stomach and he crumples to the ground, soldier: "no sleeping!", thr man comes to ask him the same question again and "wrong answer!" And hits him, tries to hit him again but mulder resists but the man holds the weapon up his throat and is choking him, in the ground sleeping naked and the man comes again and shouts "no sleep!" and mulder is startled, he asks him again what is he thinking (basically torturing him into compliance) and mulder says "what should i be thinking?" The man says "you're a guilty man who did blah blah" and holds his stick up to hit him and shouts "say it!!" and mulder flinches, mulder submits and says "I'm a guilty man who did blah blah" and is shaking

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S10

Ep2: ringing ears, falls on his knees and holds his head

Ep5: takes drugs and is high, wakes up in the hospital, in a wheelchair

Ep6: is shown with bruised and bloody face, flashback showing why he had the bruised face: in a fight, choked:: on the ground (sick from a disease spreading in the whole population), passed out in a chair, wakes up, someone picks him up and helps him walk

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S11

None

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Movies

The X-files: fight the future (1998)

Shot in his head & falls on the ground, wakes up at the hospital and tries to leave immediately and they try to stop him

Passes out in the ice (from exhaustion?), scully hugs him to keep him warm

The X-files: i want to believe (2008)

To be updated

[sisterspooky1013]

Gaslight, Chapter 17/48

Rated X | Read it here on AO3

Ellicott City, MD

When Cal walks through the door, she sees him with entirely new eyes. He is not her husband, not really, but he is a victim in this just as much as she is. Who was he before this, she wonders. What life did he lead before he woke up to his wife and two children, his home in the suburbs? The children, though not born to her, are innocents, and see her as their mother. She inspects the back of their necks, dropping a soft kiss on each of their tiny pink scars. She suddenly feels more protective of them, wondering over the lives that brought them here. It’s hard to imagine anyone hurting a child at all, but when she looks into their sweet faces, it’s even more incomprehensible.

That’s assuming that any, much less all, of what Alex said was true. As bizarre as the whole scenario is—memory erasure, implants, a national effort to keep her away from another person—she feels more oriented in space and time than she has since waking up in Baltimore two months ago. Mulder is real, she really knows him—or did. Her dreams are memories, and there must be more where they came from, somewhere deep in her mind. She chooses to believe it, because the alternative is more of the same, and that is an unbearable idea.

Cal senses a shift in her, and however he interprets it seems to lighten his mood. She is distracted, lost in thought, but she feels safer inside her own home now knowing that he isn’t part of this, and she lets herself take pleasure in Peter’s antics and Abby’s sassy attitude. In the back of her mind, she tries to decide what to do next. There seem to be very few options.

She needs someone on her side, someone who might understand and can help her find a way forward. She wants that person to be Mulder, but Alex’s warning rings in her ears. And he doesn’t remember her — would likely think she was a crazy person if she showed up on his doorstep, claiming to be his long lost partner/lover from the FBI.

The FBI. Had she joined after all? Gone through the Academy, been awarded the title of Special Agent? Special Agent Dana Scully. It sounds pretend.

The children go down easily, and she waits for Cal in the kitchen with a glass of wine. She slips her hand over the back of her neck, brushing the pad of her finger across the spot where she knows she has her own tiny pink scar. She’s touched that spot hundreds of times since talking to Alex, psychosomatic sensations tingling at the base of her spine. She wants it out—if it really is there at all—but even with a network of mirrors, she doesn’t feel comfortable attempting to extract it herself. She could ask Cal to do it, but given his demonstrated aversion to bodily fluids, she expects that he’d be unable, even if he were willing. She’ll have to find a way, but not tonight.

She’d taken a closer look at Cal’s prescription, finding the appearance of the pills to match hers exactly, though the label on the bottle claims them to be something else. She needs to bring him to where she is, to have an ally who knows what she knows, but explaining it to him won’t be easy.

“Hey,” he says hopefully as he enters the kitchen, grabbing a beer from the fridge. “Seems like you might be doing a little better?”

She pushes her mouth into a smile and nods, then pats the counter beside her in encouragement that he sit down. He does, eyeing her nervously.

“I want to tell you something,” she begins, choosing her words carefully. “And it’s going to sound completely insane, but I need you to try not to dismiss it outright.”

“Okay…” he says, taking a sip of his beer. “What’s up?”

“Ever since…my accident, I’ve had this feeling that there’s something I can’t quite recall. Like something is missing.” She makes the conscious choice to say something and not someone. She doesn’t want to tell him about Mulder, not yet.

He throws her a bemused smile.

“Yeah, mija, you lost like eight years of your memory,” he points out, and she twists her mouth up, considering another route.

“You’ve said that you experience deja vu quite often, right? That certain things will trigger a feeling of familiarity that you can’t place?” she asks.

“Yeah, everybody does,” he agrees.

“That’s true, but I don’t think everyone experiences it to the degree that you do. Most people might have a fleeting feeling of deja vu a handful of times in a year. How often do you experience it?”

Cal shrugs.

“At least once most days. Where is this going, Dana?”

She takes a large gulp of wine, grimacing as she swallows it.

“I have reason to believe that…we aren’t who we think we are,” she says, stealing a glance at his face. The deep lines in his forehead and the set of his mouth reflect confusion and a bit of concern. She decides to pivot. “Do you remember the Manatua Virus outbreak?” she asks instead.

“Yes,” he says, skeptical. “It was a pretty big deal.”

“Tell me about getting your vaccine. What was that like?”

He sits back, calling forth the memory.

“We had to go over to St. Agnes, way before you worked there, and we were given a sedative or something that knocked us out. They administered the vaccine while we were asleep,” he recounts. “So I don’t remember actually getting it, but I remember going there and having a bandaid on the back of my neck when I woke up.”

“And what’s your understanding of what they did? Was it an injection, or….?” She lifts her eyebrows and waits.

“Uh, something like that,” he says. “I think they said it couldn’t be administered by injection, so they made a little cut and stuck it in there subculturally, or whatever.”

“Subcutaneously,” she corrects him with a small smile.

“Yep, that,” he agrees bashfully. “Why are you asking about that?”

“Was it something permanent, like an implant?” she asks next, pushing forward.

“No,” he says with a grimace. “Just, like, liquid, like any other vaccine.”

“Okay,” she continues, feeling like she’s on to something. “So if I told you that I believe that a chip was inserted into your neck at the time of your vaccine, would that be a surprise to you?”

“A chip?” he repeats, setting his beer down. “Like a computer chip?”

“Essentially, yes.”

“Uh, yeah, that would be a surprise, if it were true,” he says, eyeing her cautiously. “You wanna tell me where all this is headed?”

“I know that it sounds crazy,” she prefaces, laying her hand over his on the countertop. “But I have reason to believe that your memory, all our memories, have been altered by that chip.”

“Altered how?” he asks, flipping his hand over and threading his fingers through hers. She senses how desperate he is for her touch, and she feels awful for what he must have gone through these past few days.

“I’m not entirely sure yet,” she lies. “But I’d like to see if I can remove the chip from your neck so we can find out.”

He scoffs, his mouth smiling.

“Have you been watching sci-fi movies, mija?” he asks, hiding his concern behind humor.

“I know it sounds crazy,” she repeats, smiling back. “I’m hoping that you’ll trust me enough to let me try.”

“And when you go digging around in my neck and don’t find anything?” he asks, then waits for her response.

She shrugs.

“I’ll make it up to you however you want,” she tells him, letting a little suggestiveness slip into her tone. That seems to work.

“Okay,” he says, disbelieving. “Tell me what you want me to do, Doc.”

-

Cal sits, backwards and shirtless, on the lid of the toilet, his arms folded over the tank. He’s also on his second beer, and is pleasantly buzzed and chatty. Between the booze and the lidocaine she injected just under the surface of his skin five minutes ago, she has herself a very docile patient.

She palpates the area, finding a small knot of scar tissue that seems out of place. After cleaning his skin with iodine, she prepares her scalpel.

“Ready?” she asks, and he nods.

“Oh, wait, kiss for good luck,” he says, craning his neck back.

Smiling, she leans forward and kisses him. It doesn’t bother her to do so. While predicated on false memories on his part, she now feels like their relationship is an organic one. She genuinely likes him, and she feels cared for and respected in return.

“Hold very still,” she says, then carefully slices into his skin over the scar from his prior incision.

He doesn’t flinch, thankfully entirely numb. Initially, she doesn’t see anything. Retrieving her tweezers, she gently prods around the tissue for a few minutes. She’s considering giving up when the bathroom light catches on something reflective.

Carefully, she moves away the surrounding tissue, and then extracts a small fleck of metal, no larger than a broken grain of rice. Moving over to the bathroom counter, she wipes it from the tweezers onto a square of toilet paper.

“Was there something in there?” Cal asks, and she looks back to see him watching her with an alarmed expression.

“Let’s get you sutured up,” she says lightly, not wanting to scare him.

A single stitch and a butterfly bandage topped with gauze do the trick. When she lets him know she’s finished, he slowly stands and moves toward the counter top, leaning in to examine the square of toilet paper with a look of trepidation.

“What is that?” he asks fearfully.

“A microchip, I believe,” she answers, trying not to sound too worried.

“What does it do?”

She considers him for a moment. She certainly can’t tell him everything, he’d be concurrently overwhelmed and doubtful to the point of disbelief. But if she can give him just enough information to help him spot the inconsistencies, maybe she can bring him along.

“I think it contains memories,” she tries, and he shoots her an incredulous look.

“Memories?” he repeats.

“Yes,” she answers on a sigh. “I don’t fully understand it yet, but I think you should pay close attention to any changes in your memory recall, and maybe that will tell us something.”

“Is that how the vaccine works?” he asks.

It doesn’t even make sense; they both know that. Memories and vaccines are two separate things. But she needs to lead him to her one bread crumb at a time, so for now it will have to do.

“Maybe,” she says noncommittally.

She stores the chip in a tiny plastic baggie and stashes it in the keepsake box in the master closet. After cleaning up her makeshift surgery center, she finds Cal downstairs on the couch, a fresh beer in hand. He has a far away look on his face, and she pours herself another glass of wine before settling in beside him, her folded-up legs resting against his thigh.

“What are you thinking?” she asks.

The whole thing feels a bit like trying to coax a feral dog into letting you pet him. Don’t make any sudden movements. Be ready to pause and wait before advancing. Rushing things will likely result in the whole thing going to hell.

“Where did you get this information?” he asks, looking over at her with bleary, alcohol soaked eyes.

She takes a long drink from her wine, deciding that she herself might benefit from a dulling of the senses.

“At work,” she tells him, which is technically true—Alex did approach her at St. Agnes. “There are some rumors going around, and while that’s not normally something I would pay any mind to, something about this…it feels like there may be something to it.”

“What are you gonna do now? With the chip?”

She’s considered this, of course. She has yet to come to any kind of answer.

“Nothing, for now. I think if we just wait and see how it impacts you to have it removed, we can go from there.”

Cal nods and stares at nothing for a handful of minutes. She feels like he’s open to what she’s saying, more so than she would have been were she in his shoes. Knowing that he will routinely take his medication in the morning, she decides to go for broke.

“There’s something else,” she says cautiously, carefully. “The medication I was prescribed, the Numerol…I learned that it wasn’t what it appeared to be.”

His head snaps over to hers in the lethargic, delayed way that intoxicated people move.

“What do you mean?” he asks, alarmed. “What was it?”

“I don’t actually know yet, but I think it’s possible that your medication is also affected.”

“The Haloperidol?” he asks.

“Yes. It’s obviously your choice, but I think—I’d like for you to stop taking it.”

His eyebrows shoot up.

“My tics would be off the charts, Dana,” he objects. “You know how bad it gets when I’m not medicated.”

She doesn’t know, and she suspects he doesn’t really either, but that is not a detail that’s important right now.

“I know,” she placates him, resting a hand on his knee. “Just think about it. If I’m right, you’ll know within a day or two. And if I’m wrong, you can start taking it again.”

His expression is one of doubt, but he doesn’t say anything further. He really seems to trust her, which is a welcome relief.

They shift to other topics that have nothing to do with implants or medication, and she finishes another glass of wine. It’s late, past 11:00 pm, when they finally make their way upstairs to get ready for bed. Without even thinking about it, she crawls under the covers in the master bedroom, now finding his presence a comfort rather than a concern. So much has changed in a day.

Cal scoots up close to her, each on their sides with their noses inches apart. His breath smells hoppy and minty, and when he reaches out and rests his hand on her hip, she doesn’t pull away. She feels relaxed and pleasantly numb, and oddly hopeful, all things considered.

“I love you so much,” he whispers in the dark, and it feels like a dagger and a balm all at once.

Fuck, Scully. I love you.

“I love you, too,” she says back.

To Cal? To Mulder? She’s not entirely sure. Perhaps both, in a way. The man who is physically here, and the one who lives only in her heart and her dreams. She’d like for that man to someday be the same person, but right now he isn’t. Right now, she has one man who doesn’t remember her, who is married to someone else. And she has another man, Cal, who thinks he knows her, and has found a way to love the person that she has become. And he’s right here, right in front of her, close enough to kiss.

And she does. She lets herself take comfort in his kiss, his touch, his love—even if the roots of it were planted nefariously. So many moments of her life since waking up in Baltimore have felt bad: scared, lost, confused, bereft, hopeless. But his mouth on her lips, his hand between her legs, the press of his bare belly against hers as he settles over her: she allows herself these good feelings, knowing that they are fleeting.

But she does think of Mulder, afterwards, as she tries to fall asleep with Cal curled up behind her. She wonders what he’s doing, where he is. She wonders if he, too, feels so loved and adored, if maybe he’s happy. She worries that if she does find him, if she does make him believe what she believes, she will effectively ruin his life.

She wonders what is more important to him: the pleasant lie, or the painful truth.

Tagging @today-in-fic

[enigmaticxbee]

XF Rewatch Series - Fic Recs

When you want to remember how it all was (or series-spanning fics that didn’t fit into my season by season lists):

Episode by Episode Rewatch Series:

TXF: Scenes in Between by @scullywolf - missing scenes for every episode through season 9!

201 Days of X Files by @30xf - through season 4

The FBI’s Most Unwanted by @leiascully - through season 3

All Eyes Lead to the Truth by @admiralty-xfd @fridaysat9 @monikafilefan @gaycrouton - third person perspectives on each episode, WIP currently through season 2

219 by @freckleslikestars - smutty fic for every episode, currently though Jersey Devil, NSFW

First Time, Every Time by @phillippadgettwrites - first time fic for every episode, currently through Conduit, NSFW

Check-In Vignettes:

Birthdays by @syntax6 - birthday fics each season through season 7

if the fates allow by @all-these-ghosts - Christmas with Mulder and Scully, 1993-2016

Movie Night by @i-gaze-at-scully - movie nights throughout the series

Fraternize by @admiralty-xfd @gaycrouton - a series of motel room trysts, NSFW

Inspection by @ingridgradient - for seven years, Mulder and Scully give each other tick checks in motel rooms, NSFW

#45 Hegal Place by @admiralty-xfd DanaScullyMakesMeFeelAutopsyTurvy - There’s never a dull moment when your neighbor is Special Agent Fox Mulder

This Woman's Work by @admiralty-xfd - the series through the eyes of Margaret Scully

Seventeen by @scapegrace74-blog - Explores how Mulder's sexual relationships shaped (and mis-shaped) him as a man. Each chapter represents a different partner. Mulder/Other, ultimately MSR, NSFW

X Files Rewatch Series by skuls - unconnected stories throughout the series, some canon-compliant, some not

if I am hopeful by @all-these-ghosts - Scully ficlet for every season

ever since, ever since, ever since by breakfastsandwich - scully realizes nine times over that mulder may in fact love her

Times Fox Mulder Cried by @frangipanidownunder - every season through the revival

these tornadoes are for you (or times she loved him back) by audries - vignettes throughout the series

5 A.M. by @kateyes224 - Five times Scully found herself awake at 5 a.m., and the one time she wasn’t alone

Kisses by @peacenik0 - two times Scully told Mulder “don’t do that again”, and one time she didn’t

Choose Your Poison by Solia - Five times Scully had too much to drink (and one time she had just the right amount of liquid courage!)

To Satisfy Your Expectant Tongue by @givesmevoice - The power and love of being seen and someone knowing how you take your tea.

Wake-Up Calls by lapsed_scholar - Government-issued cell phones are remarkably identical. (Or, Four times Mulder answered Scully's phone at an incriminating hour, and one time she answered his)

Canon Parallel Stories:

Incrementum by @lepus-arcticus - the progression of their relationship if they started sleeping together in the pilot, NSFW. WIP, currently through season 8

Triptych by @iconicscullyoutfits - married to Diana AU

Nuptiae Sub Rosa by @sisterspooky1013 @xfmaweezy - secret marriage AU

I've got you under my skin by cuits - In a universe where soulmate identifying marks exist and affect a part of the population, would Mulder and Scully's relationship evolve any different? Unfinished but complete through Existence so it still ends in a satisfying place.

Enough by @atths--twice - the progression of their relationship if they started sleeping together when the X-Files are shutdown in season 2, NSFW

He is the Master of His Fate, She is the Captain of Her Soul by @scullylikesscience - the progression of their relationship season 7 through IWTB era

Culmination by @admiralty-xfd - Mulder and Scully's journey of the heart, step by (baby) step.